Agility Robotics is turning Digit humanoids into a warehouse RaaS layer

GXO Logistics signed a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement with Agility Robotics on June 27, 2024, following a late-2023 proof-of-concept pilot. The agreement placed Digit in a live warehouse environment for GXO at a SPANX facility, working alongside employees and other cobots on tote movement.

Agility was co-founded by Damion Shelton and Jonathan Hurst, growing out of Oregon State University legged-robotics work. The company raised $150 million in Series B funding in April 2022, led by DCVC and Playground Global, with Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund also joining the investor group.

The manufacturing claim is RoboFab. Agility announced the Salem, Oregon humanoid factory in September 2023, describing a facility designed for peak capacity above 10,000 robots per year. RoboFab gives the Digit story a supply constraint to test: humanoid deployment only scales if the company can build, service, and improve robots at repeatable volume.

Digit's GXO task is intentionally narrow. Tote movement is repetitive enough for a humanoid warehouse robot to attempt in production, but physical enough to test balance, grasping, route execution, and fleet supervision. Agility Arc manages deployment and fleet operation inside the RaaS agreement, which shifts the buyer question from robot purchase to ongoing operational capacity.

The competitive field includes Figure, Apptronik, Tesla Optimus, Sanctuary AI, Collaborative Robotics, Locus and AMR systems for tote flow, and fixed warehouse automation. Agility's distinction is one of the earliest named humanoid RaaS deployments in a live warehouse, paired with a disclosed humanoid manufacturing facility rather than only prototype videos.

Public material still does not show delivered Digit counts by customer, site-level uptime, tote throughput, intervention frequency, RaaS economics, or annual RoboFab output. The strategic question is whether Agility can turn a bounded tote workflow into a repeatable labor layer for warehouses. If GXO-style deployments expand with reliable utilization, Digit becomes a warehouse service asset rather than a humanoid milestone.

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